 | English poets - 1790 - Страниц: 352
...grave and ferious characters are diftinguifhed by their feveral forts of gravity: their difcourfes are fuch as belong to their age, their calling, and their breeding; breeding; fuch as are becoming of them, and of them only. Some of his perfons are vicious, and fome... | |
 | Geoffrey Chaucer - 1795 - Страниц: 322
...grave and ferious " characters are diftinguifhed by their feveral forts of gravity ; " their difcourfes are fuch as belong to their age, their calling, "...them only. Some of his perfons are vicious, and fome virtu" ous ; fome are unlearned, or, as Chaucer calls them, lewd, and " fome are learned. Even-the... | |
 | 1795 - Страниц: 408
...by their feveral forts of gravity: their difconrfes are fuch as belong to their age,thtir railing, and their breeding; fuch as are becoming of them,...them only. Some of his perfons are vicious, and fome virtuous ; fome are unlearned, or (as Chaucer calls them) lewd, apd foine are learned. Even the ribaldry... | |
 | 1798 - Страниц: 560
...grave and ferious characters are diftinguifhed by their feveral forts of gravity : their difcourfes are fuch as belong to their age, their calling, and their breeding ; fuch as are becoming oi them, and of them only. Some of his perfons are vicious, and fome virtuous ; fome are unlearned,... | |
 | 1799 - Страниц: 458
...grave and ferious characters are diftinguiflied by their fevcral forts of gravity, their difcourfes are fuch as belong to their age, their calling, and their breeding; fuch as are becomingof them and of them only. Even the ribaldrv of the low characters is different, the Reeve,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1800 - Страниц: 658
...grave and ferious characters are dillinguifhed by their fsveral forts of gravity: their difcourfes l virtuous ¡ fome unlearned, or (as Chaucer calls them) lewd, and fome are learned. Even the ribaldry... | |
 | John Dryden - 1800 - Страниц: 674
...gravity: their discourses are such as belong to their age, their calling, and their breeding ; such as are becoming of them, and of them only. Some of his persons are vicious, and some virtuous ; some are unlearned, or (as Chaucer calls them,) lewd, and... | |
 | John Dryden - 1800 - Страниц: 674
...gravity : their discourses are such as belong to their age, their calling, and their breeding ; such as are becoming of them, and of them only. Some of his persons are vicious, and some virtuous ; some are unlearned, or (as Chaucer calls them,) lewd, and... | |
 | Great Britain - 1804 - Страниц: 658
...grave and ferious characters are diítinguiíhed by their feveral forts of gravity: their difcourfes are fuch as belong to their age, their calling, and...them only. Some of his perfons are vicious, and fome virtuous ; fome unlearned, or (as Chaucer calls them) lewd, and fome are learned. Even the ribaldry... | |
 | John Dryden - 1808 - Страниц: 500
...gravity : their discourses are such as belong to their age, their calling, and their breeding ; such as are becoming of them, and of them only. Some of his persons are vicious, and some virtuous; some are unlearned, or (as Chaucer calls them) lewd, and some... | |
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Even the grave and serious characters are distinguished by their several sorts of gravity, their discourses are such as belong to their age, their calling and their breeding — such as are becoming of them and of them only. 
